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  2. NetBackup™ for Greenplum Administrator's Guide
  3. Using NetBackup for Greenplum
  4. Perform a user-directed backup for Greenplum
NetBackup™ for Greenplum Administrator's Guide

Perform a user-directed backup for Greenplum

You can use the gpbackup command-line directly to start a Greenplum backup. NetBackup for Greenplum supports incremental backups from the incremental timestamps.

To perform a user-directed backup for Greenplum

  1. Create a yaml file from the example file nbgpbackup_config.yaml.
  2. On the Greenplum coordinator host run the following command:

    gpbackup --dbname database name --plugin-config yaml path

    Where database name is the database that you want to back up and yaml path is the full path of the yaml file.

    Refer to the documentation for gpbackup for additional options.

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